Robert A. Berdella, already convicted of one...

GUILTY PLEA.

December 20, 1988

KANSAS CITY, MO. — GUILTY PLEA. Robert A. Berdella, already convicted of one murder, pleaded guilty Monday to the torture slayings of five other men, whose remains he dismembered and put in trash bags to be hauled to the city dump. Berdella, 39, who already had been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole, pleaded guilty to another first-degree murder charge and guilty to four other charges of second-degree murder. He was given another life term without chance of parole, and life sentences in the other four cases. Berdella, an art and antiques dealer, was arrested in April after a man wearing only a dog collar ran screaming from his midtown house. The man said he had been sexually tortured, beaten and injected with drugs by Berdella.